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blue j 🐛illustration + tattooing
@bluedotjpeg.bsky.social
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🐝tattoo artist, illustrator, beanie baby enthusiast
🪳 one day i will wake up as the big kafka bug
✨️open for work✨️
✨️Booking Raleigh NC✨️
artbybluej@gmail.com
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finally finished this massive piece and this app is the only place i can put it so all of y'all better be grateful!
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#tattoo #furry #pupplay #queertattoo
A large tattoo on a thin white person's lower back, butt, and thigh. It depicts 3 anthropomorphic dogs in an erotic scene. It is rendered in blacks, blues, reds, and whites. A Doberman and a tricolor American Bully hold a white Shepherd dog upside down between them. The white dog fellates the AmBull, who supports him, while the Doberman sits above, fisting him. The Shepherd and Doberman are both cumming. The tattoo is mostly healed, and shown complete at its final session. A slightly different angle of the previous picture, showing how the tattoo wraps around the leg.
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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same energy
September 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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feminine ideal
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#imaginativerealism #fairy #illustration
a young, thin, green fairy woman lounges on a rocky outcropping in a fantasy world with floating mountains in the background. she has 4 iridescent, pink-veined wings on her back and 10 small wings growing from her head. she has an enormously long tongue, which winds around her arm to collect blood dripping from a dismembered male head suspended by tongue tendrils over her hand. the man is in his fifties, has white skin, fine blond hair, and blood trickling from his eyes and mouth
July 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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predrawns available for the 26th and 27th in Brooklyn! DM or go to the booking form in my bio to claim one!
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#tattoo #tattooartist #pridetattoo #nyctattoo
illustrative tattoo designs in color. a sad cat head, fox head with tongue out, girl head with ethereal lighting, an echidna, a newt, a fluffy rainbow dog, a hamster eating celery. illustrative tattoo designs in color. a cat goblin made of mushrooms, a fantasy shrew, a large dog made of a gourd illustrative tattoo designs in color. pride flash. 3 rats with colorful spots spelling the word "GAY" together. a frog and toad with tongues tied in a heart shaped knot. a lion dandy with no mane and a dandelion in their lapel. a female chicken with rooster spurs. A punk masc poodle holding a pink femme doberman. illustrative tattoo designs in color. "extra rare beanie babies. 5"-8", $300-$500." Jersey, a jersey devil Beanie Baby. Lure, a kelpie Beanie Baby. Pleasant, a mothman Beanie Babie.
June 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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turned a shirt i don't wear into a cropped collar shirt with a horse on it (that i hopefully will wear more often)
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i really wanna airbrush more shirts, this was my first try and i'm pleased
photo of a white person modeling an airbrushed black tshirt. the shirt has an existing logo on the top right breast, and the painting is a unicorn facing towards it. the unicorn is seen neck-up, in profile, with a glittering, spacey background. The animal is glossy black, and the whole image is rendered using teal, cerulean, hot pink, and white pigments. it is realistic in style, similar to 80s fantasy art
May 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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painting digital again?? maybe?? this committee went soooo quick painted on my phone
a warcraft forest troll seen in 3/4 view, shoulders-up. He is green-skinned, muscular, with simple geometric torso tattoos, long ears and nose, and tusks curling up from his bottom jaw. his nose is tattooed black, as are strips of skin from hairline over eyes to cheeks. He has a tall red mohawk with long braids trailing off the sides. His eyes glow orange, and he smiles maniacally at the viewer.
May 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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listen pal i don't care how "great and powerful" you are, that thing is at least a dozen segments over street legal, and it just destroyed a crate of good seasonal fruit!
made for @ascalaphid.com 's latest Art Telephone game, more info below
Prints: www.artbyblue.com/store/that-t...
A large acrylic painting showing a busy city street populated by anthropomorphic insects. The scene takes place in the lower city, while the richer and more pristine upper city extends up the mountain in the background. It is late afternoon/early evening, and the colors are dramatic, with warm light and sharp cool shadows. At the center of the image, a yellow weevil in wizard robes and hat rides a massive, rearing millipede. He shrugs dramatically at an angry wasp on the ground in front of his steed, whose hands are raised antagonistically. A few feet away, on the ground, is a spilled crate of red fruits. Many insect onlookers watch on from street level, balconies, and flying above.
April 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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context
Original low quality photo of Neil the hairless rat on a gray carpet. His far hand is lifted as if to plunk the keys on his small toy piano. Text at the bottom of the photograph reads "Neil banging out the tunes, April 13th 2006"
April 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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happy Neil Banging Out The Tunes Day
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#illustration #neilbangingoutthetunes #rat #painting #fantasyart
a painting of Neil, the hairless rat, as a rockstar tumbling through a purple space. He plays a small purple toy keyboard, which glows pink and leaves a commet trail behind it. Neil wears rockstar accessories; funky yellow cheese-shaped shades, two earrings, and rings around his tail.
April 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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oh hey #portfolioday ! i'm blue, an illustrator and tattooer looking for work! books, albums, or concepting, i love everything scifi & fantasy (especially dragons, apparently!)
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imaginative realism acrylic painting. a jungle at sunset. a chubby warrior woman with dark skin wearing only skimpy metal armor lounges in a mossy tree. on the ground rests a massive Jellycat Snow Dragon with earrings of similar metal. imaginative realism acrylic painting. in late afternoon light, a young boy with tan skin and brown hair sits hunched sadly, resting his hand on the massive head of an elderly dragon, who looks up at him sympathetically. imaginative realism acrylic painting. a group of travelers of fantasy races, mostly children, climb misty mountains to catch the attention of a massive Ty Beanie Baby Magic the Dragon, who had made a nest of a ruined mountaintop city. her young perch around her. imaginative realism acrylic painting. an upward shot of warped perspective, showing a nightclub lit all in pink. Chappell Roan dances euphorically in an angel costume heavily resembling Christine Daaé 's nightgown in the Phantom of the Opera musical. patrons of the club in the audience behind her resemble other characters from the musical. Above her, on an otherwise empty balcony, is a butch Phantom, lit from below by a strip of red LEDs.
April 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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i love squid transgenderism and phantom opera types
comical purple line drawing of Emperor bg3 eating a brain like a sandwich. they sit, legs straight out and eyes huge and shiny and sad. text reads "left out of every bg3 "main cast" art (minsc and ketheric are there) line drawing in black in. tav as a mindflayer punches the air, tentacles flowing revealing their diamond mouth in a little grin, eyes sparkling. next to them, text reads "GENDER AFFIRMED!" to the right, Gale, Karlach, and Astarion all wince or look concerned. ">everyone disapproves." to the left, the Emperor holds both hands to their chest, eyes heart-shaped. cartoonish, simplified continuation of "gender affirmed" piece. mindflayer!tav and the Emperor float facing each other. Tav grips the Emperor's cape, eyes huge and teary, and wails "MY **TATTOOS**." the Emperor looks down in bewilderment detailed watercolor painting. a shirtless Emperor bg3 is seen waist-up in a 3/4 view, contemplatively petting Scratch the dog with both hands and a tentacle. Scratch happily presses his muzzle to the front of the mass of tentacles, tongue hanging out, nose scrunching from the pressure.
February 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The Beneficence of Magic
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#fantasyart #illustration #painting #beaniebabies #magic #dragon
An acrylic painting on paper. In the foreground two children of fantasy races - a blonde, pale skinned halfling boy with large ears and rabbit-like digitigrade legs, and a dark skinned girl with pointed ears, wings, and a dark afro - run over a grassy, misty hill, holding hands looking into the distance. In the middle ground, climbing another misty hill, this one steeper and rockier and more in shadow, are three additional figures. Two, a large adult tiefling and a small human child, have reached the summit and are waving into the distance. The third, an elf child, holds on to a dead tree to hoist herself over some rocks that block her path. Over several misty mountain tops, half illuminated by the morning sun and half in cool atmospheric shadow, once a path that caps at the ruined wall of a large abandoned city at the top of the highest peak. An enormous Magic the Dragon Ty Beanie Baby sits in the gate, perched on/in the city like a nest. She has 3 baby Magics, 2 on her body and 1 further away, perched on a building around the side of the mountain. She us so far away and so large, her color is hazily blue from distance and mist, except a few sharp points of light where the low sun catches her. She bends her head down to look at the waving figures
February 2, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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✨️🤡clown tats clown tats clown tats! 🤡✨️
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#clown #tattoo
tattoo of a caterpillar clown. it is on a pale lower leg, layered under 2 black tattoos. it is teal, red, and purple, and curls up crying cutely A tattoo of a rat clown on a pale arm. It is white with gray speckles, wearing a red nose, clown makeup, a pointy hat, red ruffled collar, colorful striped and spotted jumpsuit, and balances on one foot on a large blue ball A large healed tattoo on a pale thigh. It is a clown girl with a mushroom theme, rendered in reds, oranges, pale browns, and hints of light purple in the shadows. Her collar is a slime mold, she wears a poncho with amanita like spots, her pants are baggy and look like a mushroom stalk. little orange mushrooms sprout from her short, glossy red bob. a tattoo on a pale lower arm of a clown caterpillar. It is mostly green with a brown and cream saddle pattern on its lower back, and accents of red and teal. It's body is covered in Stripes polka dots and little Diamond patterns that look like a mix between a clown outfit and true caterpillar markings. Its face is orange red and brown, with cream red and teal accents forming the shape of clown makeup. It has two horn-like protrusions from its head that have little balls on them looking like the jingling cap of a jester. It's bottom pseudo legs have round ball embellishments on the toes. It has 2 false antennae on its back end that are striped red and cream
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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shedding lizard
#tattoo
close up photo of a tattoo of a yellow, gecko-like dragon on a pale calf. it is in the peeling phase of tattoo healing.
January 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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it's threshold day, they shoulda had some balls and let her keep the kids
A watercolor and colored pencil illustration of Captain Janeway from Star Trek Voyager. She has three Chihuahua sized brown amphibians, one on each shoulder and one in her arms. She looks to the left into the middle distance with a dissociated and traumatized expression.
January 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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*hachacha's sadly*
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made this painting a few years ago based on this phenomenal specimen photo @ascalaphid.com got. he meanwhile drew the same beast as a gunslinger.
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#bugs #kidlitart #illustration
A watercolor and colored pencil rendering of a human-sized yellow weevil. He is standing half in shadow half in a shaft of light in front of some crates garbage bags and dilapidated buildings. He kicks up one of his feet in a dance, one of his other limbs holding onto a cane and another one lifting a brown bowler hat off of his head. He has a forlorn and weary air about him. The photo reference that inspired the adjacent painting. A yellow weevil seen from below, with enormously long fore legs, a huge rostrum, and large black eyes.
January 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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good idea. phone beast
sketchy digital painting, inspired by the creature in the quoted post. its body is long and serpentine, covered in rainbow quilted squares. it has four black catlike legs, a long black tail with a spine fringe of rainbow hair, feathery black wings, and a mammalian black head with bulbed antennae at the front of its snout. its one visible eye stares at the viewer.
January 27, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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online disinformation campaign
a watercolor painting on a white background. a female lonestar tick holds a cellphone, so much larger than her that only the bottom half can be seen. she is typing on Twitter, about to post "wow dude, go touch grass..."
January 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Whisper™️ in the Enchanted Forest
an acrylic painting on paper of a scene in a forest, viewed from slightly above through branches. a feminine elf with pink hair and European features kneels on the forest floor, hands raising towards a glowing figure descending in a gentle float from above. the figure is Whisper the Ty Beanie Baby fawn. She glows with a warm light that diffuses over the elf and foliage below.
January 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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art v artist 2024
A grid of nine images showing eight illustrations and a selfie of the artist in the center. The illustrations are colorful Dark Fantasy acrylic paintings and the illustrator is a femme person with blue hair shaved sides and a head tattoo of wings. A similarly laid out grid showing tattoos and the center image is the artist with their new head tattoo on full display. The tattoos done by the artist are colorful new school and illustrative tattoos depicting fantasy creatures and mushrooms
January 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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watch out boys she'll chew you up
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healed 3 months, in shade and sunlight, no filters
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#tattoo #healedtattoo #mantis #tattooartist #newschooltattoo #bug #illustration
An image of a color tattoo on pale skin with golden undertones. A new school drawing depicts a green mantis with stars in her eyes eating a string of colorful red gore out of the head of her decapitated mate. He has pink and red heart spirals in his eyes as he looks up at her, and the image is capped off at the bottom by a series of drippy gore hearts that form a chain connected to his mouth. The lighting is bright and natural but subdued. The same tattoo as the previous image, now lit in direct sunlight. The colors are more golden and saturated and you can see a faint glare on the tattoo where the sunlight hits texture in the skin
December 26, 2024 at 5:16 AM
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firg (2.5 years healed)
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#tattoo #frog #tattooartist
A tattoo of a very fat frog on an arm. The skin of the arm is tan with orange undertones. the frog sits over the elbow, facing towards the body. it is a white's tree frog, rendered in full color, greens and purples and creams, with huge, shiny amber eyes. it has a thin black outline.
December 3, 2024 at 1:29 AM
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Some ✨️Edgy✨️ Christmas lads, serving double duty as both Friday the 13th tattoo flash for December, and potential portfolio additions, as an illo agent recently suggested I add some black and grey spot examples.
4 black and grey pencil drawings on a white background. Clockwise from the top right, there is: 1) Mari Lwyd, a horse skull in profile ornamented with ribbons, shrouds, and a flower crown. She has a metallic eye in the socket. 2) The Rat King from the Nutcracker ballet. They have 3 heads, the middle crowned and baring its front teeth. They lunge forward, throwing back their fur-lined cape, holding a saber sideways across their body. they have 2 tails curled around each other. 3) The Sugarplum Fairy from the Nutcracker. She is viewed in profile from the thigh up. She wears a layered and ruffled tutu and sleeveless bodice. Her arms are raised, one above her head and one straight out at shoulder height, mid-dance. Her hair is long, dark, and curly, worn loose down her back. She has 2 pairs of wings, which fan out on either side of her like a billowing scarf. She is slightly plump, with a soft smile. 4) Krampus’ head in profile. A tongue the length of his skull winds in serpentine loops out of his open grin. His teeth are all sharp, his lips dark. He has long, black hair, and a pointed dark beard. His nose is goatlike and wrinkled in a delighted snarl. He has ibex-like horns, goat eyes, sharply pointed brows, and pointed ears.
November 30, 2024 at 4:17 AM
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An Audience With The New King
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done for a Discord art telephone game, you can view the whole thing here: ascalaphid.com/telephone/te...
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8"×10" acrylics on watercolor paper
A painting done in thin washes. In an underwater scene, the foreground is dominated by a shelf on a reef on which a pinkish snail is partially illuminated by a dappled shaft of light. The other elements around it, corals and a hiding fish, are in shadow. In the middle ground, on a lower plane, a pile of old gold coins rises into a loose pyramid. Near the base of the pyramid are two snowflake morray eels, curled around facing each other and the snail, their eyes glowing magenta. Between and above them sits a large red octopus, tentacles wrapped around a staff made of twisting driftwood and a huge pearl. The pearl and the octopus' eye both glow the same magenta. At the top of the hoard, backlit by sun coming through the waves, is a red crab. It sits on a toothless human skull overgrown with seaweed and coral. In its left claw it holds a scepter made of driftwood and a gold tooth. It has a cracked top of a beer bottle on its head, the jagged spikes looking like tines on a crown. Carapace protrusions above its eyes look like angry eyebrows. The Reef stretches out into the background, increasingly blue shifted as it fades.
November 28, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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i shall bring forth the seeds of the dead to share with the worms that gather in the darkness and surround the world with the power of their lives
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Annihilation cover mockup, watercolor and pencil on board, 2020
a watercolor painting of a wrapping book cover for Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer. the title and author are aligned to the right of the image, with the left of the image serving as the back cover. From right to left, a woman's head in profile sits decapitated in the palm of a hand. The woman is East Asian, young and thin, with a bend in her nose and short black hair. Vines creep over her face, sinking under her skin as glowing veins. Her eye glows the same neon green. Shelves of mushrooms grow from the back of her head. Behind her is dense green swamp. Toward the left/back cover, the arm holding her becomes encased in moss, and the swamp gives way to estuary. In the background trees is a vine-covered lighthouse, glowing the same green
November 26, 2024 at 6:33 PM